Yeah, I loved theses anecdotes! Your daughter sounds like a fun coop partner!
Word on the streets is that the latest Witcher 3 patch adds cross save with Steam and gog.
That patch also adds a bunch of graphical options: setting the anti aliasing to off and sharpening filter takes off the mud with minimal artefacts. Quite a wonder.
Slavverā¦ not sure I want to watch though. I am 100% getting this so might go on blackout til I play it. :)
Can you (or anyone else) comment on how For the King performs on the Switch. I have it on PC, but very much think it would be a great fit for travel/portable/couch co-op gaming. I have just been too afraid to get it on Switch due to early comments pointing to poor performance.
We said it was okay, on par with a lower end laptop. Might be insufferable if you are used to running the pc version smoothly.
I didnāt play For the King from its release ā the initial version had a rep for crashing and a poor framerate. There have been a couple patches since, last one in November 2019. Currently, it runs fine to me. It may occasionally crash but it autosaves each turn so itās not a huge thing if it happens.
Maybe the PC version is super smooth, I dunno, but I wouldnāt characterize the Switch version as sluggish.
Looking forward to the Animal Crossing direct. I think all we know about the game so far, a month before release, is:
- Itās set on an island.
- Thereās crafting.
If thereās more, Iām not sure what it is.
The direct aired this morning, I missed it but thankfully itās up on YouTube. Here is the link to the time stamp where it starts (for some reason the entire 1+ hour stream is listed with the first 40 minutes just a logo).
Iām going to check it out here in a bit.
This might be a stupid question, but Iāve never played an Animal Crossing game and know nothing at all about it. Based on what little Iāve seen I thought this was a little kidās game and not a ārealā game that would offer anything to adults that donāt have kids to game with.
Is this something aimed at all ages?
Hell yeah.
I gather itās a bit like a Stardew Valley, though maybe more chill/relaxing than that, and has a blending of The Sims? No combat or anything, but you are growing/cultivating/expanding your corner of the world and interacting with other characters that ā¦ I donāt know, have quests? Itās something Iāve been interested in, but only with this new am I looking at it with interest. So far I do like what Iāve seen, but itās slow going watching this presentation at work.
I am midway through the Direct now (or maybe a little further). Theyāre talking about new additions to the island, like Museum and a larger Guest Services building with more tools.
Are these planned future (free, IIRC) DLC that will roll out over time IRL, or are they instead tied to your advancement of your personal island based on in-game metrics?
I would kinda prefer the latter ā Iām not sure Iām gonna be able to afford this when it comes out, but plan to buy it eventually, and sorta like the idea of watching the island grow and develop ānaturallyā rather than coming in 6 months late and itās just stuffed to the gills with new crap.
(This is almost exactly the opposite of how I think about other games, I think, hah, but to me, it seems like part of the AC experience is that sort of gradual, peaceful growth)
Animal Crossing is not really a videogame. But itās definitely played by people of all ages.
Mostly youāll be decorating things, collecting things, and managing relationships with the asshole animals on the island. This new one has crafting which wasnāt in the last AC I played.
Theyāre pretty boring, but that might be what youāre looking for.
(donāt forget to read the above comment with Tomās impersonation of Richard Holt)
Itās pretty unreasonable of Tom Chick to make fake posts using my account. Abuse of power! Impeach him!
Got an answer to my own q on reddit: things like museum and new town developments are per-user, unlocked through play.
My, weāre gonna need to exchange lots of friend codes on March 20th!
Is the āall saves on the same console share a townā thing unique to the new game? Itās a really weird decision, IMO. Getting this for my gf and I to play together, sure, but I could imagine at a certain point that sheāll get much more into it than me and would want to have full control over her island, but it sounds like when I login on my own, Iāll potentially be mucking things up for her, or weāll be unlocking stuff without each other seeing it?